ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,668, issued on March 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Support device" was invented by Atsushi Kimura (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a support device that supports an object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate, without rotation of the support device itself. The support device is provided with: a base part; pair of support members that are slidably provided with respect to the base part, and have arc-shaped cut-out portions which sandwich and hold a circumferential surface of an object to be supported, from both sides of the object; a plurality of first bi...